Cold storage cost per pallet-day
Storage, handling and services cost for a block of pallets, per pallet-day and per case.
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- 3 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: cost sheet
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
$17,400.00 on the invoice, $0.967 a case; the other quote is $1,950.00 cheaper for this block (11%)
- Storage
- $5,880
- Handling and services
- $7,200
- Total
- $13,080
- Per pallet-day
- $2.08
- Per case
- $0.727
Invoice estimate for this block
- Storage, anniversary billing (1 month started)
- $8,400.00
- Storage if prorated by the day (the tool's figure)
- $5,880.00
- Billing gap
- $2,520.00 more for anniversary billing; storing 9 days longer costs nothing extra
- Handling in and out, and blast freezing
- $7,200.00
- Other charges
- $1,800.00
- Monthly minimum top-up
- None
and 1 more lines
Also on the sheet
- Cost per unit · 4 lines, starting with “Per pallet-day”
- Quote comparison (same block) · 3 lines, starting with “This warehouse”
- Yearly spend if the block keeps turning · 4 lines, starting with “Turns a year”
The plain-words read of this example
Storing 300 pallets for 21 days comes to about $17,400.00 on the invoice, $2.762 a pallet-day and $0.967 a case. Anniversary billing charges 1 full month, $2,520.00 more than the prorated figure. That is 1.8% of the product's value per case. The other quote is $1,950.00 cheaper for this block (11%), about $33,892.86 a year if the block keeps turning. Check which storage terms each warehouse uses before you sign, and how many public cold stores your state has.
3 cited sources
- Capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses (biennial summary) (USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, via Cornell's USDA library)
- Global Cold Chain Alliance (home of the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses) (Global Cold Chain Alliance)
- ENERGY STAR Score for Warehouses (technical reference) (US EPA ENERGY STAR)
Plus 6 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.